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Just to clarify, the trolley problem is related to the repugnant conclusion, where utilitarianism+additivity+transitivity+dense set of outcomes lead to counterintuitive decisions. You can live with these decisions if you are a perfect utilitarian, or you have to break or weaken some of the assumptions, if you are not.